Improvement in cider and wine-mills



WILLIAM B. FARRAR, 0F GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH GAROLA.

Letters Patent No. 113,283, dated April 4, 1871.

. IMPROVEilllElJ'I' IN ClDER AND WINE-MILLS.

The Schedule referred te in these Letters Patent and making part'of the same.

To all whom/t may concern:

Be it. known that I, ,WILLIAMJ B. FARRAR, .of Greensborough,in the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful I ur provenient in Cider or Wine-Mill, and I'do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a-part of this specification, iu'whichv Figure lis a longitudinal sectional elevation.

Figure.l 2 is an end elevation of, the machine with the frame removed, showing the crushing-cylinder and combs. A

Figure 3 is a view of the lever and disk.

i This invention relates toa cideror wine-mill, in which the unbroken fruit is first placed in a press-box, wherein, bythe moving ofthe platen, it is fed up to the revolving grinding-cylinder and thereby reduced to pom ace, and in which the pomace is then replaced in the same box, and, by the operation ofthe platen, forced again against the grinding-cylinder, which now stands still, whereby the juice is expressed from the pomace, the `same box thus serving to hold the fruit both while grinding and pressing.

Referring to the drawing- .A is the press-frame.

a is the crushing-cylinder, placed across the frame at one end thereof, and armed with teeth placed in lines parallel with the cam-ring at the end of the cylinder.

bis the press-bemin the construction of which there snothing peculiar, the same-being placed in the frame A, having one end hollowed out so that itmay aconlately lit the crushing-cylinder, provided with a cover in its upper side for the introduction of fruit and pomace. rl`he press-box maybe moved back and forth between the crushing-cylinder and the shaft c that is mounted, in its rear, ci'os'swise of the frame A.

The' press-box is provided with grooves in its outer sides and at its forward end, which grooves are entered by pins that projectinward from the sides ofthe frame A, whentlie press-bex is drawn forward against the crushing-cylinder. By means of thev pins and grooves the box is prevented from rising for any cause. Another piu passed through the side ofthe frame into 'the press-box holds the latter from moving backward.

'A plate, d, placed crosswise of the frameA,beneath the cylinder' a, meets the end of the press-box when the latter is drawn forward, and conducts the fruit directly to the cylinder.

Beneath the plate (l inclined grooves are out in the bottom of the frame A, running to the spout at the front end thereof, for vconducting away the juice eX- pressed from the pomace.

The transverse shaft c has a crank on Vone of its ends outside the frame A. On it is also placed, about at the center of the frame A, a pinion, e, the teeth ofwhich-'engage with' a rack attached to the lower side of thegplaten-bar f, which bears the platen h on its front extremity and passes through an oritice in the rear end of the frame A.

The platen is of proper size to traverse -tne pressbox, and is concave at its front side, se as to fit the crushing-cylinder.

The press-box having been drawn up to the cylinder and fastened, andthe platen having, by the backward rotation ofthe shaft c, been moved to therear end of the press-box, and the latter having been filled with fruit, the machine is ready for the operation of producing pomace. i

This is done bythe operator turning with one hand the crank ofthe shaft c, and with the other the handle of the balance-wheel "L, which is placed'on the same shaft that bears the crushing-cylinder. As the platen is moved forward through the press-box bythe action of the pinion e on the `platen-bar, it forces the fruit against the crushing-cylinder. Attached to one end of the latter is a cam-ring, Z, which enters lone of the interstices of each ofthe two combs m n, which are mounted in suitable supportsin the frame A', beneath the crushing-cylinder, parallel to the latter and to each other, and at a suitable interval apart, the teeth of which combs extend between the teeth of the crushing-cylinder nearly to the surface of the lat-ter. The

comb m is placed next to the front edge of the plate d, so that all the pomace` thaty passes between the crushing-cylinder and said'plate passes also between the crushing-cylinder and the comb m, and between the teeth of the latten Both combs are made to reciprocate by the action of the camring l as it revolves. The ofce of the comb mis to thoroughly commin- Vute the pomace, it being obviously impossible for any piece of fruit larger' than one of the interstices of said comb to pass it. The officeof the comb a is to keep the surface of the crushing-cylinder clear of pomace. One or more' of these cleaninggcombs may be used. After passing the comb m the pomace faits through the spout o ofthe frame A into a vessel placed below against which all pressure is exerted. When more power is required than can be exerted by the crank it is gained by means of a lever applied to the shaft c. Through these instrumentalities the platen 1s forced forward and the pomace compressed between it and the crushing-cylinder. The juice expressed'irom the pomace pours down the grooves in thebottom of the frame A, falls upon the straining-cloth, and runsv grecs, more or less. `the press-box may be drawn back from the cylinder through the same into the .vessel placed for its reception.

. 'This machine is designed to be worked by hand. It is built mostly of wood,need not be above twentyeigbt inches long and` eight inches wide, is so light that it may be easily carried by a man, and is very simple and cheap of consti-notion and eicient in operation, being capable of making a gallon of cider in every ve minutes of actualnse. It may be fastened to a table or any other place that best suits the operator.

l In use the rear end of the machine is elevated s that the frame stands at an angle of twenty-tive de- By removing the fastening-pin and taken from the frame for the purpose of discharging the pomace.

I reserve vthe right to use a cam of any shape, in Y connection with the cylinder, to govern the action of the combs. y p

The shaft chas a serrated disk, r, on one end, out- .side the frame A.

' The lever` s, by which the final pressure is imparted to the pomace, has prongs, t t, at one side, which enter the notches of the disk, one prong at its lower` end and the other' at a suitable distance from the rst. The upper prong t has at its end a lip, t', which catches on the inside ofthe disk'as the prong is placed between nasse any two of the' teeth of the 'disk,.and thus prevents the lever from'being pulled o from the disk as it employed to rotate the latter. I

In order that none of' the fruit may escape grinding, the teeth of lthe crushing-cylinder are placed in s1nu,

soidal rows, which rows are parallel with ,the lcam-ring I, for the purpose of enablingr the teeth of the crushing-cylinder to always pass betweenthe teeth of the combs without coming in'contact with them. The combs are to be placed in working position by passing them through one side of the frame A.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The'cornbinati'on and arrangement'of platen h, crushing-cylinder a, andpress-box b, in such manner that the latter serves to hold `the unbroken fruit during the process of grinding, and also to bold the pomace during the process of compressing, as specified.

2. The combination ofthe crushing-cylinder a, cam Z, and combs m and n, as described. f

3. The lever s, provided with the prongs t t and lip t', in combination with disk r, as set forth.

W. B. FARRAR.

Witnesses:

C. A. PETTIT, W. G. HENDERSON. 

